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adverb 
  1. Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
Fair and aboveboard. - Burke
Etymology: above + boardThis expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table.

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